India has dismissed Pakistan’s attempt to inject Kashmir into a discussion of the workings of the Security Council as an undignified misuse of the General Assembly forum.

Pratik Mathur, a minister at India’s UN mission, reacting to Pakistan bringing up Kashmir, said that it “misused this forum to spread baseless and deceitful narratives, which is not a surprise.”

“I will not dignify these remarks with any response just to save valuable time of this august body,” he added witheringly.

Mathur, who did not name Pakistan and referred to it as “one delegation” was reacting to Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Munir Akram’s suggestion to set up a Security Council body to monitor the implementation of its resolutions on Kashmir.

Since it was not named, Pakistan did not get a right to reply when it could amplify its statement.

“We face a particularly uphill task to try and get Kashmir onto the centre of the agenda at the United Nations,” Pakistan’s former Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said at a news conference last year.

(This story was taken from a syndicated feed, and edited only for style by Gujarat Samachar Digital staff)

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